2009-10 projects

Valerie Collins, Fadzai Fungura, and Zach Zasada studied solar cells based on quantum dots. Link to a video that shows Valerie Collins in the process of creating a series of quantum dots each with a slightly different size.

2001-02 projects

Tessa Parshall, Tom Reyes, and Scott Tolliver built a spectrohelioscope capable of observing the sun's corona in broad daylight. (Shown on right.)

Videos of Student Work projects

This video shows Valerie Collins in the process of creating a series of quantum dots each with a slightly different size. As the quantum dots grow larger, their adsorption spectra changes and the color of the dots changes accordingly. All the quantum dots shown here are chemically identical, but their spectra are all different.